L'alternance des formes "relatives" chez des bateliers faiblement scolarisés

Abstract

Derycke Marc - Switching between "relative" forms among bargemen with little schooling. Switching between normative and non-normative forms of the "locative" (où/que) and the subject case (qui/que/je, tu, il elle/) in a corpus rather well protected from the school norm, gives rise to a constraint that tends to associate the normative construction with an identified "antecedent", and the non-normative forms to a generic or indefinite element at the head of the clause. In each case, the vernacular provides two forms and two or three types of constructions, whereas the Standard is restricted to one form, indifferently rendering various sorts of semantic relationships. The economy of the "relative" constructions in the vernacular seems to rest on a principle corresponding to the intersection of interrogative pronouns and of delimitators construed without any preposition : qui, que où.